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Hacker News · Technology

Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters

Article URL: https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2026/retrofitting_jit_compilers_into_c_interpreters.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777897 Points: 33 # Comments: 9

ltratt
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Microsoft faces fresh Windows Recall security concerns
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The Verge · Technology

Microsoft faces fresh Windows Recall security concerns

When Microsoft tried to launch Recall, an AI-powered Windows feature that screenshots most of what you do on your PC, it was labeled a "disaster" for cybersecurity and a "privacy nightmare." After the backlash and a year-long delay to redesign and secure Recall, it's once again facing security and p...

Tom Warren
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Snap is laying off 16 percent of its staff as it leans into AI
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The Verge · Technology

Snap is laying off 16 percent of its staff as it leans into AI

Snap is laying off roughly 16 percent of its global workforce in a cost-cutting effort to chase improved profitability with the help of AI. The cuts will impact around 1,000 full-time employees, according to a memo sent to staffers from Snap CEO Evan Spiegel. An additional 300 open roles are also be...

Jess Weatherbed
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Regex That Actually Works (Copy-Paste Ready Examples)
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DEV Community · Technology

Regex That Actually Works (Copy-Paste Ready Examples)

You paste a regex. It doesn’t work. You change one character. Now it works. You have no idea why. At some point you just accept it. Regex is not something you fully understand. It’s something you negotiate with. Typical workflow: google "regex email" copy something scary-looking pa...

Andrew Rozumny
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We weren’t slow at fixing bugs — we just didn’t understand them
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DEV Community · Technology

We weren’t slow at fixing bugs — we just didn’t understand them

Most bug reports are useless. So I built this. I used to think building an AI customer support chatbot would help reduce bugs. The idea was simple: if users could report issues easily through chat, we wouldn’t miss anything. And at first, it actually worked. We started receiving bug repo...

Dat Nguyen
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How to Prevent Prompt Injection: Why Pre-LLM Sanitization Matters
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DEV Community · Technology

How to Prevent Prompt Injection: Why Pre-LLM Sanitization Matters

TL;DR — Prompt Injection Prevention in LLM Applications: Examples and Fixes Prompt injection isn't a model problem — it's an input validation problem. LLMs don't separate instructions from data. Your code has to. Pre-LLM Sanitization is the practice of filtering, validating, and transfor...

Natasha Joshi
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Password Generation Is About Entropy, Not Randomness
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DEV Community · Technology

Password Generation Is About Entropy, Not Randomness

Password Generation Is About Entropy, Not Randomness I built pwgen-rs, a small Rust CLI that generates passwords in three modes and reports the bit-count of entropy for every one. Writing it forced me to answer a question I had been handwaving for years: what does "a strong password" act...

SEN LLC
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SMIL Animations in SVG: A Step-by-Step Guide Using a Real Wordmark
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DEV Community · Technology

SMIL Animations in SVG: A Step-by-Step Guide Using a Real Wordmark

What is SMIL? SMIL stands for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. It is the W3C standard baked directly into SVG that lets you animate shapes, paths, transforms, colours, and more — zero JavaScript, zero CSS, zero external libraries required. The browser does all the work natively inside...

angeloscle
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How to integrate DeepSeek R1 into your React app
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DEV Community · Technology

How to integrate DeepSeek R1 into your React app

Integrating DeepSeek R1 into Your React Application: A Comprehensive Technical Guide DeepSeek R1 represents a significant leap in AI-powered search capabilities, offering semantic understanding, vector search, and hybrid ranking. This tutorial will walk you through integrating DeepSeek R1...

Apollo
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Understanding DDL and DML SQL concepts
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DEV Community · Technology

Understanding DDL and DML SQL concepts

1. INTRODUCTION This article will cover an introduction to SQL concepts SQL (Structured Query Language) is a standard language that is used to communicate with relational databases. It is used to store, retrieve, manipulate, and manage data that is organised in tables. Core concepts in S...

Davy Baraka
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Spotify now sells printed books
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The Verge · Technology

Spotify now sells printed books

Spotify is rolling out some new updates for book lovers, expanding audiobook listening features and allowing users to buy physical publications through the platform. Readers in the US and UK can now purchase printed books via a new integration with Bookshop.org on the Android Spotify app, with suppo...

Jess Weatherbed
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